Over
the last year, swindlers promising employment have been spreading from Facebook
and Twitter to LinkedIn, where their fake profiles have been popping up as fast
as the site is able to take them down, Bianca Stanescu, security specialist for
anti-virus vendor Bitdfender, said Friday.

While
job scams are regularly found on Facebook, LinkedIn was considered less
susceptible because of its professional clientele, Stanescu said. However, it
seems that a LinkedIn profile with a picture of a pretty woman posing as a job
recruiter and promising easy money is too hard for people, particularly men, to
resist.

LinkedIn
said in an emailed statement that it "immediately removes profiles that
are found to be spreading inappropriate content or engage in
spam/phishing."

"Additionally,
we scan URLs against known blacklists in an effort to prevent the distribution
of malware, spam or phishing sites," the company said.

Job
scams have become widespread because of the difficulty people are having in
finding work in the U.S. and Europe. While unemployment has remained doggedly
high in the United States, across the Atlantic the percentage of workers
looking for jobs in some countries exceeds 25 percent, greater than the U.S.
Great Depression.

"LinkedIn
is more and more popular (with scammers) because of the global economy,"
Stanescu said. "Think of all the people who are out there looking for
jobs."

LinkedIn,
as well as the names of other trusted brands, has been used for years in scam
emails to try to lure victims to malware sites. Last year, security experts
reported such scams were increasing at an accelerated pace.

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Last
month, LinkedIn was criticized for releasing an Apple iPhone app, called Intro,
which embedded a link to an email sender's profile. Security experts said the
app left users open to phishing attacks, while LinkedIn said the criticisms
were based on "inaccuracies and misperceptions.

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